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Re: Testing on PowerMac G4
From: |
Pavel Roskin |
Subject: |
Re: Testing on PowerMac G4 |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Jan 2008 21:10:03 -0500 |
On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 21:37 +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> If you want to confirm that it's grub-mkimage's fault, you can try booting
> kernel.elf directly. In theory it should give you a rescue prompt.
That's what it does. And that's what we have been discussing closer to
the bottom :-)
> > In fact, the image doesn't even survive
> > simple objcopy intact. "objcopy grubof.modules grubof.modules1"
> > produces a file 208 bytes long.
>
> What is grubof.modules ? I never heard of it.
That's the suggested name for the grub-mkimage output on PowerPC,
according to http://grub.enbug.org/TestingOnPowerPC
Yes, it's long and misleading. Maybe it should be called grub.elf or
something. I'm usually good at inventing new names, but I have no good
ideas this time :-)
> Wait, that would be EACCES in Linux errno codes. In GRUB, grub_errno
> 13 means GRUB_ERR_UNKNOWN_DEVICE (at the time of writing; there isn't a
> stable ABI for this afaik).
Thanks, that explains something!
> If grub_errno was set you should've seen an error message somewhere. It
> seems there's something wrong in our error handling. :-/
I agree.
> I would really check the GRUB_IEEE1275_FLAG_NO_PARTITION_0 issue. It was just
> a guess, but it smells really badly :-)
I'll have a look.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, (continued)
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Robert Millan, 2008/01/03
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/03
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Robert Millan, 2008/01/03
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/03
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Robert Millan, 2008/01/04
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Robert Millan, 2008/01/04
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/04
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Robert Millan, 2008/01/04
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2008/01/04
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Robert Millan, 2008/01/05
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4,
Pavel Roskin <=
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Robert Millan, 2008/01/05
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2008/01/04
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Pavel Roskin, 2008/01/04
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Yoshinori K. Okuji, 2008/01/05
- Re: Testing on PowerMac G4, Robert Millan, 2008/01/05